The Internationale Gesellschaft fur Geschichtsdidaktik (International Society for History Didactics) met at the European Academy at Leck, Germany, September 9-12, 1991, for a conference on history and history education in the Baltic region. Scholars from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia,, Latvia, Russia, Poland, Germany (including former East Germany), The Netherlands, and the United States participated. When plans had been laid for the conference more than a year earlier, no one could have foreseen the timeliness of the conference.